With a lot good music being launched on a regular basis, it may be exhausting to find out what to take heed to first. Each week, Pitchfork affords a run-down of serious new releases accessible on streaming providers. This week’s batch contains new albums from Earl Sweatshirt, Mac DeMarco, Nourished by Time, Deftones, Ghostface Killah, Water From Your Eyes, Wolf Alice, Kathleen Edwards, Ami Taf Ra, Superchunk, Hunx and His Punx, Scree, and Greg Freeman. Subscribe to Pitchfork’s New Music Friday e-newsletter to get our suggestions in your inbox each week. (All releases featured listed here are independently chosen by our editors. Once you purchase one thing by means of our affiliate hyperlinks, nevertheless, Pitchfork earns an affiliate fee.)
Earl Sweatshirt: Stay Giggle Love [Tan Cressida/Warner]
Earl Sweatshirt trickled out Stay Love Giggle with cheeky teasers and a Los Angeles listening get together. The brand new album follows the 2023 Alchemist collaboration Voir Dire, and it’s the rapper’s first solo effort since 2022’s Sick!, however it actually shares its DNA with 2018 opus Some Rap Songs. The 11-song album is equally crammed with off-kilter, sample-driven beats, and the Californian’s lyrics and deadpan supply are as potent and affecting as ever. Producers on the album embody Theravada, Navy Blue, Black Noi$e, and Youngster Actor, and Erykah Badu provides vocals to the closing “Exhaust.”
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Mac DeMarco: Guitar [Mac’s Record Label]
